Example sentences of "[pron] wondered for a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered for a moment whether I was dreaming , and then silently gave thanks . |
| 2 | I wondered for a moment at the intricate patterns of life . |
| 3 | A doctor sometimes sees people with a different eye from other people , and I wondered for a moment whether , despite her beauty and her apparently special position on the island , she was really happy . |
| 4 | I wondered for a moment if he was dead drunk ; but I fancy not . " |
| 5 | I wondered for a moment about this strange near-miss , and what a trout might be doing crossing the road , until I saw a fisherman standing aside , who can only have dropped his slippery catch on the roadway and was waiting to recapture it . |
| 6 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 7 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |
| 8 | She wondered for a moment whether he had stopped being unfaithful . |
| 9 | She wondered for a moment if she was expected to answer . |
| 10 | Perhaps she heard his steps before he knocked — she opened the door very quickly — and he wondered for a moment if she had been as she had when he last saw her , standing just inside the door , her head on one side , listening , as she had listened to the bombs , and to the siren she heard before it was sounded . |
| 11 | It was fortunate that he was able to swim , although he wondered for a moment about the presence of large predators in the water . |